Southern Comfort: Small Beats Big Any Day

Today is the best day of the week. Today was the farmer's market at Vanderbilt. Yesss. If you know Kristin Trone at all, you might be thinking to yourself, but isn't Kristin like most fiscally conservative.. cough cough cheap... person I know? And aren't farmer's markets expensive? You are wrong twice. For one, buying local and in season really doesn't cost very much more than from the grocery store.

Also, there are two things I like even more than saving 75 cents here and there; supporting local small businesses so we aren't eaten up by low-quality commercialism, and farm fresh milk. This creamy, rich, deliciousness is proof enough that small beats big any day! Its just so much better than the nasty white water you buy in the store. Oh man, I am getting so spoiled here. But it comes in a glass jar. I just love that.

My loot from the Farmer's Market for the week: Note the brown eggs, farm fresh cheese and milk, oh yeah and peaches, tomatoes and strawberries from the south. So very good.

Some of my other favorite small/local businesses to support:

So you wanna buy a new shirt. You could go buy some generic T-shirt from Target for $15 or $20 that was made with no love by a machine in China, or you could spend $6 extra and get this shirt or other rockin' original creations by a cool mother of two, made with love, sent to you. Check out Adri Apparel.

I am a little biased on this one. I love my home city, and I love this huge but local used and new book store. It just has Portland written all over it and its the best place to go read cookbooks at 1am. I say this from experience. Go to Powell's Books when you are in Portland, Oregon.